Here's a work in progress. It's a photo of a canvas that I've been working on this weekend. The scene is a view of Cathedral Mountain in Brewster County, Texas. The 16 x 20 canvas will get further attention, I'm sure, but my preferred method is to get things to a certain point and then just live with it for a while to see what bothers me enough to need revision. Posting images to the internet naturally accelerates that process. :>
Somewhere in the flat in the middle ground, I'm almost certain that there is a center of a section, although that would be a section in a block of about 400 sections surveyed in 1875 for the G.H.& S.A. Rwy. Co. by virtue of land scrip issued to that company by the State of Texas.
I like your work! One of these days I need to negotiate a deal with you to get one of your paintings - assuming you ever part with any.
I also like your work. Very nice!
Back here in the original Brewster I am hard pressed to find any named high points of land, and certainly not any mountains, buttes, ridges, and so on. I can find named low points however, such as Widgen's Hole.
Nice work Kent. I sure do enjoy the two I possess!
Oh, and if you would like any photo's of your ancestors stomping grounds just let me know. Take a look at google earth, or the Harwich and Orleans Quad sheets, and pick out some views 🙂
Dtp
Your use of colors is intriguing in a good way.
Have a great week! B-)
> One of these days I need to negotiate a deal with you to get one of your paintings - assuming you ever part with any.
Well, I'm having prints made from the paintings and would be happy to send you a few. There are about thirty paintings in the series at present, all of Texas subjects.
I'll send you an email through BeerLeg with my address.
Thank you!
> Here's a work in progress... The 16 x 20 canvas will get further attention, I'm sure, but my preferred method is to get things to a certain point and then just live with it for a while to see what bothers me enough to need revision. Posting images to the internet naturally accelerates that process. :>
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It needs a road leading to the summit with a road sign* with bullet holes and a clown passing the sign on a unicycle with his back to the viewer.
* it could be a small billboard or some other type of small ad sign.
> It needs a road leading to the summit with a road sign* with bullet holes and a clown passing the sign on a unicycle with his back to the viewer.
Once upon a time there was a tall rock cairn in place on the summit. When the 400-square mile block of surveys in the foreground was resurveyed in 1889, bearings were taken to "Monument on Mt. St. Andrews [as the mountain was then called]". I don't know whether the cairn was built by Texas Indians or by the military surveyors who mapped the area by a sort of reverse triangulation method of triangulating to intersected control points from stations in the flats.
> > It needs a road leading to the summit with a road sign* with bullet holes and a clown passing the sign on a unicycle with his back to the viewer.
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> Once upon a time there was a tall rock cairn in place on the summit...
I am thinking the ad sign could be for a Bar B-Q place with the clown looking at the sign in profile as he passes.
Of course, Bar-b-q could be spelled a number of ways but it should be very wrong to the clown.
like
"barbeque"
> I am thinking the ad sign could be for a Bar B-Q place with the clown looking at the sign in profile as he passes.
I was thinking more of a road sign reading "New Orleans 1243 mi." :>
> I was thinking more of a road sign reading "New Orleans 1243 mi." :>
OK..get rid of the unicycle and just have the clown hitchhiking...
of course with one of those big clown thumbs..
🙂
ok enough
The lad has talent a la Alex Colville:
http://alexcolville.ca/gallery/alex_colville_2001_surveyor/
YOS
DGG
Aficionado dell'arte
Knew a fellow who claimd to be from Brewster County, TX
But, I was never really too certain about that because the man could not open his mouth without telling a lie. You couldn't even trust a nod of his head to be telling you the truth. He preferred to lie when the truth was so easy and self-evident to determine. Bob Rouser was his name, or at least that is what he told us. He was employed by USDA as a laboratory technician, but, he belonged in another form of government employment--political office.
Knew a fellow who claimd to be from Brewster County, TX
Well if this fellow said "I'm from Brewster County", that would make me suspicious immediately. If he'd said "I'm from Alpine, Texas", that would be different. Most of the population of Brewster lived in Alpine.
